The King of Berlin
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| Original title | The King of Berlin |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Lars Kraume |
| script | Lars Kraume |
| production | Viola Hunter Ulli Weber Anita Schneider |
| music |
Christoph M. Emperor Julian Maas |
| camera | Jens Harant |
| cut | Stefan Blue |
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The King of Berlin is a German comedy thriller by Lars Kraume that on September 23, 2017 First program was erstgesendet ARD. The novel of the same name by Horst Evers served as a template .
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The young and ambitious Commissioner Carsten Lanner is being transferred from Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony to Berlin for further training. His new colleagues don't take him very seriously because they think he's overzealous. Only the extremely short-sighted and similarly eager commissioner candidate Carola Rimschow pays him more attention and supports him in his work.
Lanner investigates Erwin Machalik's death, whom his colleagues consider to be an unequivocal suicide and who had already been filed. But Lanner disagrees and continues to investigate.
Machalik, owner of a pest control company that is supposed to keep the city rat-free on behalf of the magistrate, had played himself as King of Berlin for years and threatened the city council with a plague of rats if something happened to him. There is increasing evidence that this was not an empty threat: first of all it is known that the exterminator Toni Matthes had to kill a rat with his bare hands because none of its poisons worked. He thinks they are a whole new diurnal species . Soon reports of rats appearing en masse from all parts of Berlin pile up. Matthes reports to Lanner about a breeding station for rats in the sewer system.
He is named the city's top rat hunter and Machalik's sons find out that he is their half-brother and thus also a co-heir of the father's company. Lanner suspects a possible motive for the crime.
Another lead leads to the organization called "MaMMa" founded by Machalik and the building contractor Maschmann years ago. The entrepreneur was interested in Machalik's death and the police chief also appears to be involved. Lanner finds out, however, that Machalik actually killed himself.
Lanner now has to deal with the plague of rats. Matthes reports to him about specially set up feeding places, which Machalik had apparently used to control the rat population. There you could round up the rats and kill them with modified LSD . Tests proved that. Meanwhile, Lanner discovers that the rats can be lured to music.
Rimschow gets the drugs from the police evidence chamber and exterminators, equipped with powerful, mobile radio loudspeakers, drive the rats out of all the underground shafts to the central feeding station, where they ingest the LSD and perish.
Toni's mother gives the police Michalik's diaries that she found in his estate. With this, Lanner can convict the members of the "MaMMa" who had poisoned a journalist in 1964 because he wanted to thwart their plans.
production
The film was shot from July 5, 2016 to August 3, 2016.
Reviews
"What sounds like Erich Kästner is as charming and entertainingly staged as Kästner wrote his children's novels, and it is the crazy characters who are embodied so magnificently by their actors that this film, insignificant in the enlightenment sense, is such an enormous joy."
"Big prints in the B-Note: The harmless mixture of numerous running gags, a few humorous individual scenes (for example with Carmen-Maja Antoni as a robust domestic worker) and harmless political criticism is designed for outspoken lovers of robber pistol parodies."
Ulrich Feld from the FNP , however, said: “The strip processes and makes fun of crime and horror quotes in tons. But not as elegant as would be desirable. ”“ Instead of an elegant thriller comedy in the style of 'Charade' or André Hunebelle's first 'Fantomas' film from 1964 - which the story would certainly have produced - there is therefore an often crude slapstick come out. "
Web links
- The King of Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The King of Berlin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ The King of Berlin at crew united
- ↑ Silke Burmester: ARD crime thriller "The King of Berlin". A film that doesn't want anything and manages everything. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 23, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017 : "With" The King of Berlin ", ARD is finally showing a thriller that doesn't teach, just wants to entertain - and it succeeds wonderfully."
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: TV film "The King of Berlin". The rats and the felt. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 23, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: "The King of Berlin": The King was a rat king ( memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at FNP , accessed on November 17, 2017.
